Video Preview in EmulationStation

[Nismo]

@fieldofcows what's your next step?

[capsaicin]

@Bluescreen said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

is there an sd image with video preview for download?
i can´t compile by myself ;(

SSH to Pi and execute the following commands:

# install packages
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get --yes install vim vlc libvlc-dev libvlc5
 
# get and compile
git clone https://github.com/fieldofcows/EmulationStation.git
cd EmulationStation/
cmake . -DFREETYPE_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/freetype2/
make clean
make
 
# auto start video emulatorstation
sudo sed -i 's/\/.*emulationstation\.sh/\/home\/pi\/EmulationStation\/emulationstation\.sh/' /usr/bin/emulationstation

[fieldofcows]

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@fieldofcows what's your next step?

Well, I've spent whatever free time I've had sorting out my repository and splitting each 'feature' into a separate branch. That process isn't quite complete yet. I am going to submit some of the changes as PR's to the RetroPie fork and see what happens. I haven't had any feedback from anyone trying out the Pi build so maybe there's not that much interest - or everyone is waiting until it is in an 'official' build.

Once I've done that I'll get back to developing some more features and fixing some bugs.

Do you have a Windows version wishlist? I assume metadata fixes would be on top :)

[Nismo]

@fieldofcows yes i've posted some wishes post ago... but i'll let you concentrate in your splitting process.

I was painting my house so not much time to work on theme.

I've finished gb theme and working on gbc theme, but i'll upload new theme version when more systems added.

[Bluescreen]

@capsaicin Thx it works :)

[Nismo]

New little update for oldroom theme:

• added Game boy system.
• added Game boy Color system. (I need better gbc image for this theme).
• Fixed detailed view.

Somebody have a Game boy Color and can make a photo holding it in his hand?

Now detailed view looks this way :

Download: http://www.mediafire.com/file/ur2k9sbp2ua6yn9/oldroom_1.7_720p.zip (Recommended for Rpi)

1080p version: http://www.mediafire.com/file/vvylrsgh8waqkkk/oldroom_1.7_1080p.zip

Sorry @fieldofcows this time i didn't have time to provide an 800x600 fix but i'll do soon.

I can't make work marquee on top of "rating" on detailed view, i'm not sure if can't be possible on detailed view or it's my fault.

Enjoy.

[Rion]

@Nismo @fieldofcows How hard would this be to implement for other themes for example to Pixels by @Rookervik ?

I mean you don't have to change much just an option to replace the picture with an video if that exists and if not just show the screenshot/boxart?

Or are there more underlying changes that have to be made?

[Nismo]

@Rion i'ts not difficult.

You can show video and image at same time if you want, that's what i do in my theme, but instead use an screenshot for image i use boxart.

Maybe if @Rookervik give me permission i can take a look at the theme and adapt it for video support.

Or maybe he want to do it himself... who knows.

[Nismo]

@fieldofcows

Ultra fast update:

• Fixed gbc system_art image was not in 720p for 720p version..
• Fixed gbc system_art image was not in optimized for 1080p version.

Download 720p (recommended for Rpi): http://www.mediafire.com/file/j91ai4widytm076/oldroom_1.7b_720p.zip

Download 1080p: http://www.mediafire.com/file/er1q5xuyhqecqjp/oldroom_1.7b_1080p.zip

Enjoy.

[Nismo]

@Rion i have the pixel theme working with video support right now... XD

[Rion]

@Nismo said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

@Rion i have the pixel theme working with video support right now... XD

Sweet!

[Nismo]

@Rion @fieldofcows Under permission of @Rookervik here you have:

Pixel theme with video support: http://www.mediafire.com/file/39l5qlnz137c2ap/pixel_video.zip

Also posted in the original thread.

Enjoy!

[Nismo]

Pixel theme with video support:

[capsaicin]

Hello,

I wrote a small test script. To create gamelist.xml for Video ES. Download 3D box art, marquee and videos from http://screenscraper.fr

All systems of oldrom theme, are supported and FinalBurn Alpha.

It still has many bugs. If anyone is interested ...
Https://github.com/capsaicincapsicum/videoes_scraper

[GtBFilms]

@Nismo Pixel Video theme works pretty well, but for some reason I get a blue tinge on the videos - they are the same videos used in the oldroom theme, where they look okay and don't have the blue tinge.

Do you know what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks!

vs

[Nismo]

@GtBFilms strange it doesn't happen to me, i'll take a look at this.

[fieldofcows]

@GtBFilms said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Pixel Video theme works pretty well, but for some reason I get a blue tinge on the videos

That's interesting. It might be a bug in the video playback. I'll check. What are you running it on? RPi, Windows or Linux?

[Rion]

@capsaicin said in Video Preview in EmulationStation:

Hello,

I wrote a small test script. To create gamelist.xml for Video ES. Download 3D box art, marquee and videos from http://screenscraper.fr

All systems of oldrom theme, are supported and FinalBurn Alpha.

It still has many bugs. If anyone is interested ...
Https://github.com/capsaicincapsicum/videoes_scraper

Nice! Maybe this could be implemented into Universal XML Scraper by @screech

[GtBFilms]

@fieldofcows Hi, I'm running on an rpi3. Might be to do with the video encoding, I'll try some others.

[fieldofcows]

@GtBFilms It is indeed a bug that only shows on the RPi - a problem with the opacity of the video. Well caught! I've got a fix which I will commit shortly.